To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

One always wonders about roads not taken.